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A seventy-something-year-old woman dutifully visits her husband's grave only to realize that she contributed to the unhappiness of her marriage by letting her husband die lonely and unwanted.
On the planet where humans are second-class citizens to the reptilian Peshari, a man nearing his death violates Peshari funeral customs in favor of an Earth burial. His defiance reveals a fatal flaw in his enemies.
A mother grieving for her late son spends sleepless nights watching him walk across her bedroom. One day, she receives news that his grave is to be dug up.
Determined his death is approaching, a man pays a last visit to both his wife's grave and his son's ghost and tries to say goodbye.
A young Irish girl and her lover decide to retrieve a valuable ring from a grave — but both the girl and her lover are greedy and overwhelmed, and their night of grave robbing does not go as planned.
A young woman is angered from beyond the grave when her family's greed denies her a proper burial, resulting in her becoming a vengeful spirit rather than moving on to the next stage of the afterlife.
A Black poet living in an old plantation house struggles to maintain control of her mind by writing the stories of her ancestors. When one of those ancestors begins possessing her and forcing her to kill as punishment, she must choose between continuing to document their stories or being silenced forever.
In rural 1950s Pennsylvania, a man processes his wife's death alongside his tight-knit family. As he gathers courage to tend his wife's grave, he must rely on his siblings more than ever before.
A famous poet wakes up in the afterlife but wishes to be alive, and death offers her a deal. If she kills a boy, she can live for 25 more years.
In a distant future, a woman and the crew she works for are tasked with transporting alien artifacts, one of which is believed to be haunted by a ghost, to a museum. Questions of this ghost plague the woman throughout her journey: will she find answers to them in time?